I posted an update today.  The notes for the update were as follows:

1. New Artifact Weapons and Armor
2. Powerful Unique Artifact drops from Hardcore and Nightmare difficulty.  Best from Nightmare.
3. Skill slot cycling only displays usable skills.
4. Pressing Use on inventory equipment will now equip it.

There are now artifact weapons which are designated by a purple color.  Artifact weapons have increased damage ranges and artifact armor has more armor.  Stats on the equipment is also increased.

On casual and normal difficulty levels, there is a 10% chance that the item a boss drops will be an artifact item.  On hardcore and nightmare difficulty levels, there is a 50% chance the item a boss drops will be an artifact item.  On top of this, on hardcore and nightmare difficulties bosses drop specific artifact items that are related to them in some way.  Nightmare difficult items are always 2 levels above hardcore mode now.

For example, Grimloc Blackfist will drop the following: Grim Sever, a battle axe; Worg Hide Armor, leather armor; Orcish Shaman Amulet, amulet; and Hand Sever, a hand axe.  These items are artifact items, but they have extra damage, armor, stats etc.  If Grimloc Blackfist drops a Battle Axe that is an artifact, then it will become Grim Sever and get extra stats.  There are a couple artifact items I want to add special properties too, but they are not currently included.  For example, Grim Sever will allow the player to use Berserk without it draining their health.

So, now there is a reason to play hardcore and nightmare beyond a personal challenge.

In the next update, I will add left handed and right handed options for the UI, add special properties to some artifact items, and add some basic achievements.

After that, I will focus on allowing landscape mode for the game, and begin working on the OUYA version.

The OUYA version will contain high resolution textures and such, and I will likely add some extra graphical effects.

Hi,

I love your game and I love the fact that you constantly update it, but I really would like to request a few things:

1- Please allow us to play in landscape mode!

2- Please let us hook up the game commands to hardware keys.

This would really help every user out there with a hardware keyboard, those using gamepads / outputting to the TV and Xperia Play owners like myself.

Also, should you implement that, please let us change the transparency on the UI button overlay as well as allowing us to select which buttons we wish to keep or make them disappear altogether. I, for instance, would most likely kill all buttons since I believe there are enough buttons on my Xperia Play. Oh, supporting the xperia play touchpads (mostly to use them only as extra buttons, but if it's too hard to do it regular hardware key hooks would suffice, I guess) would be great as well.

That's all for now - keep up the great work! This is one of my favorite android games of all time.

Hello

I recently purchased DD for my Samsung Blaze and I've run into a problem.  The game will not save or load from autosave.  The screen goes black and never returns. 

I've tried clearing cache, reboot, reinstall/reboot and nothing has worked.

Any suggestions?  Thank you

My level 25 character gets killed by Unstable Gaseous Balls immediately. I think it's poison damage, not magic damage - how do you protect against that. I've been trying to beef up my endurance stats and items. Here are my current stats: STR 26 END 168 AGI 156 MAG 159. Doesn't matter if I'm on Hardcore or Nightmare, if it get's me before I get it, I'm dead automatically. Is it just a HP thing? I've got 754 HP now.  It's ironic that I can go up against bosses and take big hits, but these little pukes kill me so easily.

I am stuck on Level 4 at the door that states it is stuck. How do i get it open? I have no other paths to use but that one door.

Also I noticed that I cannot equip myself with some of the available weapons that i pick up. Whay is that?

My solution: save before buying/selling. :)

Also here to say thank you!!! I was searching the Android app store several months ago for some kind of D&D-style game to help alleviate the occasional moment of boredom. Lo and behold I stumbled across Deadly Dungeons. Thanks for putting together this awesome game, can't wait to see more!

Hi,

First I just want to say thank you and what a GREAT game you have made for the android! This is by far the best old school style RPG out there! Bravo!

A feature I'd like to know if it's in the works is Brightness Settings. I know I can go to the phone settings and adjust the brightness, but to do that each time I play and finish play would be kind of a drag...

Will this feature come in the future?

THANKS!! :)

Well I've yet to recieve my Google Nexus 7 32gb which is my first Android device but I was looking for great games to get for it and Deadly Dungeons is the first one I'll get. The game looks really cool and from reading comments I've found only good. You keeping on updating the game is also a major positive factor. Well all that to say thanks and I can't wait to get into this game.

Excellent!  That got things moving again.  A few notes after a few days of play that may be helpful:

1. For my first character, I deleted all the level files as you suggested.  For my second, I just deleted that last level that was giving me problems and that seemed to work.

2. After 3 more levels with my first character, the problem re-occurred, but this time I was unable to load any characters at all.  I ended up deleting the highest two level files to get everything back.

I created another character and again experienced the back-and-forth when trying to go from level 10 to 11.  I was able to use the main menu to exit, but cannot get this character back.  When I try to reload, it gives me the "Loading..." meessage then a black screen.  Tried power off and pulling the battery, but no change.

Running on DroidX with Andriod 2.3.4

I love the game and hope a resolution can be found.

I am seeing the same back-and-forth issue with changing levels and not being able to reload a character. First time was in the temple. I eventually got past it by powering down my phone, but I did lose all my maps.

It has happened again in the God Realm at Level 19. I poweered down and was able to reload my character, but now I cannot go through the doorway to the next level. Everything else seems to work.

I'm on a DroidX

Sorry wrong topic.